Titled “The Independence Debt: The Price of the General Emancipation of 1793 to 1794,” Gusti-Klara Gaillard’s presentation shed light on how the freedom of former slaves was perceived by colonial France as an economic loss to be compensated. In her address, Ms. Pourchet highlighted the process that led to the abolition of slavery in Saint-Domingue in 1793–1794, without any compensation to the masters, and then to the imposition upon Haiti, thirty years later, of compensation payments to those
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